Market Stall · Vegetarian 'Sausage'
Glamorgan Sausage
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It's called a sausage but contains no meat at all — the original was made with cheese from the now-rare Glamorgan cattle breed, and Caerphilly usually stands in today.
Grated Caerphilly-style cheese, breadcrumbs, leek and herbs are bound with egg, rolled into a sausage shape, breaded and fried until crisp outside and molten within. Welsh market stalls and delis sell them ready-fried as a snack or light lunch.
Why it's made this way: The traveller George Borrow described it in 1862, and it came back into favour during Second World War rationing, when cheese and leeks stretched further than meat.
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